The Black Lives Matter movement in Brazil has largely focused on the basics: human rights and affirmative action. This is because talking explicitly about racism here is like trying to teach math to a three-year-old — pointless.

Priscila Gama, a 34-year-old Brazilian architect and entrepreneur from wanted to do something to help women in the face of pervasive violence. In 2016, she and a team launched the Malalai app, which enables women to let pre-authorized friends follow their routes when moving around the city by any means, whether by foot, car, or public transportation.

A shocking 94 percent of Native American and Alaskan Native women in Seattle have been raped or coerced into sex, according to a survey conducted in 2010 that was finally released to the public on Thursday.

Religion is the thread that runs through the heart of India, but these questions have hardly been explored in public. Indian women’s ideas about religion have particularly been ignored by these institutions. So I decided to ask them about it.

The hashtag #PayBlackWomen trended this week as authors, nonprofit organizations, elected officials, and social media influencers joined forces to highlight the income inequality and high unemployment rates affecting African-American women.

As a black person with light-skin privilege, it took me a while to understand that society treats dark-skinned black people with a similar indifference and insensitivity to that which the ugly duckling experienced.

Brazilian author PJ Pereira tells the Fbomb about how his best-selling trilogy of books about the Orishas, gods that are part of the indigenous Yorubá tradition, are helping the belief system be re-examined in Brazilian culture.

In early May, Kim Kardashian West made headlines for her attempts to ask White House officials to advocate for a presidential pardon for 62-year-old Alice Marie Johnson. While this case is certainly worthy of attention, her advocacy generally overlooks the fundamental problems of racism and prosecutorial discretion within the criminal justice system.

The day after his “Saturday Night Live” performance, Childish Gambino released a new song titled “This Is America.” The complicated imagery of the song’s accompanying music video powerfully highlights the provocative symbolism of his lyrics, which make political statements about the role of blackness in America.